Numbers 1 to 4 and Attached Forge is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1956. House.
Numbers 1 to 4 and Attached Forge
- WRENN ID
- north-joist-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1956
- Type
- House
- Address
- Numbers 1 to 4 and Attached Forge, New Road, Great Tew
- OS grid reference
- SP 397 288
- Coordinates
- 51.95671, -1.4229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of four small houses and an attached forge, likely built partly in the 17th century and extended with the forge added around 1830. The buildings are constructed from coursed squared marlstone, rubble, and some ashlar dressings, topped with thatch and Stonesfield-slate roofs featuring limestone-ashlar stacks. The row consists of one house with a three-unit plan and four houses with two-unit plans, all standing two storeys high.
Houses two and three are likely the oldest and are connected by a bay that features a wide segmental archway with a heavy hood mould and moulded imposts. Houses one and four, which were formerly numbered four and five, are probably early 19th century and have stone-slate roofs with gable parapets. The front of the row has eleven windows; on the ground floor, there are plank doors, nine three-light casements, and one two-light casement, all with moulded stone surrounds, labels, and leaded glazing. The first floor mainly has three-light casements, some of which still have leaded glazing. The roof has five stacks.
At the rear of house three, there is a 19th-century wing connected to a two-storey rubble building with a Welsh-slate roof, which has one bay and three-light leaded casements. This building is also linked to the 19th-century forge, which runs parallel to the row. The forge is made of ashlar with a Stonesfield-slate roof and features a large entrance to the left, a segmental-arched doorway to the right, and a central wood mullioned and transomed window under a flat arch. The roof of the forge is hipped to the left and collapsed to the right, with a central ashlar stack. The interiors have not been inspected, and the later houses may have been remodelled 18th-century buildings.
Local climate
Numbers 1 to 4 and Attached Forge receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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